Typical!

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Mon, 2002-07-29 09:07

Typical!

Some local authority councillors have pocketed allowance rises of almost 200% in the past year and 21,000 councillors have seen their expenses increase by 67%, House of Commons figures show.

Details of the payments come as councils are in dispute with their 1.2 million council workers after offering a rise of 3%.

GMB leader John Edmonds was scathing in his comparison between what councillors were receiving and offering.

"It is a rather sad story isn't it if, for instance, in London the average increase in allowances for councillors is 194%, nearly 200%, it has nearly trebled, and yet the offer to local authority workers is only 3%," he said.

"That still leaves an awful lot of people below the £5 an hour target figure which is appalling in the 21st Century."

Tue, 2002-07-30 00:06

edgy

Wrong forum, right target, mykle. if it's worth saying it's worth saying twice ::))

Mon, 2002-07-29 09:17

Mykle

Oopps, sorry - wrong forum.

Mon, 2002-07-29 12:33

andrew pack

Not exactly a true picture, given that local government has restructured from a committee model to a cabinet model. What this means is that some councillors now do very little and some do bloody loads and have huge budgets and responsibilities and powers and it is more or less a full-time job. So, yes, some councillors allowances have gone up to reflect that they are spending 50 hours a week at their job rather than 15, but others have gone down or remained the same. No local government apologist me, but statistics can be used, as someone once said, in the way a drunk uses a lamppost. Not for illumination, but to support that which can't stand unaided.

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